About the job
The AR Accountant plays a critical role in maintaining relationships through providing exceptional customer service. Primary responsibilities will include monitoring and managing the AR aging to ensure payment is received in a timely manner and recorded accurately. The AR Accountant works closely with internal and external partners regarding general billing and account inquiries, payment discrepancies, and outstanding invoices. Ancillary responsibilities will include applying cash for payments received and preparing balance sheet reconciliations for AR accounts.
Duties And Responsibilities
- Proactively manage the collections process to ensure timely payment of invoices
- Communicate with customers regarding outstanding balances, general account inquiries, billing questions, and payment application
- Plan and execute on strategies to resolve past due balances or escalate as appropriate
- Partner with internal billing, logistics, and sales teams to address issues related to collections
- Reconcile receivables accounts, reviewing for completeness and accuracy
- Apply payments from customers on a daily basis
- Assist with monthly reporting on collections efforts to provide analysis to management team
- Other related duties and ad hoc projects as assigned
Required Skills & Competencies
- Effective Communications – Maintain an effective level of organization of information and provide well thought-out, concise, and timely communication (both written and oral) to ensure all internal and external parties always have the appropriate information.
- Teamwork – Operate as part of the overall accounting function and the MicroStar Team, considering others’ needs, opinions, and priorities. Support other internal teams as needed and ensure that all relevant deadlines are met.
- Concern for Accuracy – Demonstrate a high level of attention to detail. Discern accuracy and appropriateness of information received, ensuring that anything pushed forward is correct.
- Concern for Effectiveness – Thrive in a fast-paced environment, balancing multiple tasks and changing priorities, maintaining quality throughout. Take a proactive and innovative approach to performing all duties and consider how tasks impact both short-term and long-term objectives.
- Commitment to customer service; ability to anticipate needs and interact professionally with customers and internal partners
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of related education and experience
- 1 – 3 years of relevant work experience
- Advanced knowledge of Excel
- NetSuite experience is a plus
Working Conditions
- This position is located in an office environment
- Frequent extended hours in front of a computer screen
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